Rachel Trevor-Morgan

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Rachel Trevor-Morgan (* before 1975 in Stourbridge , West Midlands ) is a British haute couture - milliner . She regularly outfits members of the British royal family and numerous public figures with her hat creations. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth II personally awarded her the “Royal Warrant”, which officially makes Trevor Morgan the purveyor to the court, which is why she is referred to in the media as “Her Majesty's Hatter”.

Life

Queen Elizabeth with a Rachel Trevor-Morgan hat (2015)
Queen Elizabeth at a reception for NASA workers wearing a yellow Rachel Trevor-Morgan hat (2007)

Rachel Trevor-Morgan was born in Stourbridge to Vicar Basil Henry Trevor-Morgan. She attended the Alice Ottley School in Worcester from 1975 to 1982 . Originally she wanted to train as an actress or costume designer after school. At the age of 18 she went to London to begin an apprenticeship as a hat maker. She went to the well-known milliner Graham Smith , who designed hats for Princess Diana and Elizabeth Taylor , among other things , in a three-year apprenticeship. From 1988 to 1990 she worked in the studio of the royal hat designer Philip Somerville .

In 1990 she opened her own studio in an attic in Westminster Convent. Initially, she sold her designs at the St. Martin in the Fields market , and a short time later she also supplied large department stores such as Fortnum & Mason , Harrods and Selfridges . Due to her success, she moved her studio in 1992 to the renowned district in the neighborhood of the St. James Palace . At the end of the 1990s she was one of the most influential milliners in Great Britain. Since 1997 she has also designed an annual bridal headdress collection. In 1999 she won the British Hairdress Designer Award for one of her bridal collections.

Rachel Trevor-Morgan has been one of the preferred hat designers of the British royal family since 2006, alongside Angela Kelly and Philip Treacy . Her first design in this function was a matt gold-gray hat with roses, which the Queen wore to the service in St. Paul's Cathedral on the occasion of her 80th birthday . She also designed noted models for the Golden Jubilee Tour and a bright green hat that the Queen wore to the Trooping the Color parade on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

Rachel Trevor-Morgan is a guild member of the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers . In 2014, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II personally awarded her the "Royal Warrant", which officially makes Trevor-Morgan purveyor to the court, which is why she is referred to in the media as "Her Majesty's Hatter". Her hats have been featured several times on the covers of fashion magazines such as Vogue , Elle and Brides .

Rachel Trevor-Morgan frequently works with British designers such as a. Stewart Parvin , and makes hats for the outfits of members of European royal families, including Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , Sophie, Countess of Wessex , Alexandra von Kent , Zara Phillips and Autumn Phillips . She also designs hats for the Royal Ascot horse races and family celebrations.

Trevor-Morgan has sales offices in Great Britain and Ireland and exports their hats to Asia, North America and the Arab world. She sells around 120 hat creations a year, ten of them for Queen Elisabeth on average. For her hat designs she uses, among other things, self-dyed straw and high-quality artificial flowers from the Saxon manufacturer Heide Steyer . The custom-made products are priced up to £ 2000 .

Rachel Trevor-Morgan is married to a Westminster School teacher. The couple have two sons and a daughter.

Trivia

In 2014 Rachel Trevor-Morgan was commissioned to make miniature hats for the figures of the royal family at Legoland in Windsor .

Web links

Commons : Designs by Rachel Trevor-Morgan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RGS Worcester | School alumni. (No longer available online.) In: www.rgsw.org.uk. Archived from the original on June 14, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rgsw.org.uk
  2. ^ The Queen's Wardropedia; 2 inch heels, 200 handbags and why she-s only worn trousers once. In: The Telegraph. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ From Jasmin Fischer: Rachel Trevor-Morgan: That is the guardian of the Queen. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. May 21, 2010, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Queen's 90th birthday is marked at Trooping the Color parade - BBC News. In: BBC News. Retrieved June 14, 2016 (UK English).
  5. ↑ "Royal Warrant of Appointment" is a royal authorization that currently only applies to Elizabeth II, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Charles, Prince of Wales . These three persons can grant the “Royal Warrant” to persons and companies, who thereby receive authorization as purveyors to the court. This award, which can also be withdrawn, is an honor and may be used by the persons or companies concerned for their own advertising purposes. Most of these beneficiaries have joined forces in the Royal Warrant Holders Association.
  6. ↑ HatQueen: Royal Warrant Holder: Rachel Trevor Morgan Millinery. In: Royal Hats. March 31, 2014, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Five minutes with ... A royal milliner. In: Arabian Business. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ FOCUS Online: On hats of the Queen "blooms" Saxon sometimes. In: FOCUS Online. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Designer Rachel Trevor-Morgan: Hats are high season in Great Britain. In: Kölnische Rundschau. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Sue Choularton: On her head be it. In: Sunday Time magazine. July 15, 2012, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Lego Figures of the Royal Family Wear Tiny Hats Created By Rachel Trevor-Morgan. In: International Business Times UK. June 10, 2014, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  12. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Designer hats for royal Lego figures: Very small with a hat. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Trevor-Morgan, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British haute couture milliner
DATE OF BIRTH before 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Stourbridge , West Midlands